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XV

Famous

Release date: 15th April 2011

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About This Track

"Famous" is a track by XV, from the album Zero Heroes, released 15th April 2011. Full lyrics are available below.

About the Artist

XV

XV

Lyrics

Famous

[Produced by The Awesome Sound]

[Intro: Jazmine Sullivan]

No one wants to be invisible

Everyone just wants to be seen

I know our fame is so irresistible

Cause we all need a reason to be

So I gotta be Famous

I need to be somebody

[Verse 1: XV]

Who is Vizzy just a nigga from the middle (Ungh)

Like Malcom I guess an X fit him (Ungh)

I know the feeling when feelings starting feeling lost

But it's funny how these bars help a nigga free his thoughts

And I just hope the same niggas that help me get on

Be at the airport to see a nigga off

And everybody don't think I live in the Dub, why?

Cause I don't hit the club so I doesn't tee me off

I'm in the green

Trying to tell Warner I'll keep them in the black

Long as I'm spitting raps

Praying that they listen every time I send em tracks

You be last on this train, you'll be sitting on the tracks

Nobody backing, it's like I made my own spine

My first apartment was my one and only co-sign

?

And my momma knew what I gotta be

[Hook: Jazmine Sullivan]

I gotta be Famous

(I know just what I gotta be, now the whole world just gotta see)

I need to be somebody

[Verse 2: XV

Look, In every song I'm on now I'm speaking for more than me

Crazy no body was there to open up the door for me

Somehow I got in like I was invited cordially

On a plane looking over the ocean, I know there's more to see

I entered 2011 with no more beef

I don't need nobody that's gonna hope I lose

Shouts to Rob at XXL helping restore the peace

Now it's finally time for me to show and improve

And every year there's a brand new hot nigga

Have that, cause that's something I am not nigga

Cause I done seen how they come and they go

And I've been building the Squarian army on the low

I got fans that say I've been down since 2004

When yo ass was probably enrolled

I was handing out blank CD's I pressed on my own

Cause all I've ever known was

[Hook]

[Verse 3: Sez Batters]

Where I'm at is like if X hit the reset

I know that I'm sick, They can't take it

They don't want to know it like an HIV test

But I can feel the magic in my wrist

Now I'm on, hit the lights

Hear my wrongs, when I write

I'm giving stones through every thing I recite

Now my words is heating up with a stove for a mic

I plan to do it major, you can see a star in me

This MC's fly, so the future wasn't hard to see

About to kill the game, so pardon me

I'm better, but don't take it to the heart like arteries

Just know I'm on like noon

It's a blizzard when I walk in a room

Cause the flow clean, no need for mop or a broom

For that fact I know soon... Batters

[Hook x2]

Track details

From Zero Heroes

2011
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XV
15th April 2011
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  • —Awesome (Remix)
  • —Textbook Stuff
  • —The Last Hero
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  • —Foreign Exchange Student
  • We Ball
  • AaaHH!!! Real Monsters
  • Learn To Fly
  • 2015
  • Batteries
  • Watch Me Go
  • SmallvilleZero Heroes
  • Awesome (Remix)Zero Heroes
  • Textbook StuffZero Heroes
  • The Last HeroZero Heroes
  • Foreign Exchange StudentZero Heroes
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  • Doo Rag
  • G.O.O.D.
  • May The Force Be With You
  • Mirror's Edge (Vizzy Zone Version)
  • Reset Button
  • Vizzy Zone
  • She Go, I Go
  • X.plosi.V.e
  • Lift The Game
  • Mirror's Edge (Benzi remix)
  • Me, You (Remix)
  • Used To
  • Gobstopper
  • Life Vs Livin'
  • Colours
  • Girl What's Up (Remix)
  • The Process
  • Good Move
  • Raw Efficiency
  • Chains, Whips & Bars
    3:21
  • Bang, Bang, Bang
    3:20
  • Swervin'
    3:35
  • The Most
    3:36
  • Awesome (feat. Pusha-T)
    3:50
  • Credits

    Production & Engineering

    Writer
    Sez Batters, XV
    Producer
    The Awesome Sound
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